Video Editing

The job starts with files, not with a camera. You share a link to a folder with your footage and tell us where the clip will run and how long it should be. We watch the material and agree the structure before assembling anything: how the clip opens, which moments carry it, how it ends. That saves revision rounds, because nobody argues about structure on a finished video.

Next comes a rough cut that shows the order of shots and the pacing. We ask for feedback by timecode, such as shorten the cut at 0:14 or swap the shot at 0:32, so no comment gets lost. The final version adds colour correction, graphics, cleaned-up sound and subtitles.

A short clip is ready in 3-5 days, a video with graphics in 1-2 weeks. The short clip price includes two revision rounds, the Standard package three. The clock starts once we have all the footage and the brief.

Send the original files straight from the camera or phone. Video forwarded through a messaging app is heavily compressed, and no software brings the lost quality back. Phone footage is perfectly usable for social clips when there is enough light and the picture is reasonably steady.

Editing rescues a lot: mild shake can be stabilised, colours matched, background noise reduced and long pauses removed. What it cannot fix is an out-of-focus picture, a blown-out sky or speech drowned by wind or echo. If sound was recorded on a separate device, include that file and we sync it to the picture.

Think about orientation as well. Footage shot vertically will not make a good horizontal YouTube video, and cutting a vertical version out of a horizontal frame loses most of the picture. If you have not filmed yet and need both, leave space around the subject.

For Reels, TikTok and YouTube Shorts it is not enough to crop the sides off a horizontal video. In a vertical version every shot is reframed, titles are moved clear of the app's buttons, and the opening is often rebuilt, because viewers decide in the first seconds whether to keep scrolling.

Subtitles are available in Estonian, Russian and English. State the languages in your brief, since each one is separate work: the text is translated, timed and split into short lines. For social media we burn the text into the picture; for YouTube and your website we can supply a separate subtitle file on request.

If the clip is going on your website, tell us. We export a lighter file for a website than for an ad account, because a heavy video slows page loading. A short muted loop suits the page header, while a longer video is better added as a YouTube player.

Music is part of the edit, and the choice of track decides where the clip may be shown. We use tracks from licensed libraries that are cleared for online use and advertising. Add a familiar radio song and the platform may mute the sound or take the video down, and the risk is higher still in paid ads. If you have your own music or a purchased licence, send it with the footage.

The same applies to other people's footage: video or images found online can go into the clip only if you hold the rights. The footage you filmed stays yours. You receive the finished clip in every agreed format and resolution. If you also want the editing project files so you can change the clip yourself later, agree that before work starts.